June 17, 2025
We are witnessing a joint Israeli-US attack on Iran. Claims by the Trump administration that it is not involved are false.
Israel’s far right government and the Trump administration are joined at the hip. Particularly so in air power. On my last visit to the Pentagon, I saw uniformed Israeli Air Force officers embedded with the US Air Force.
The claim that the US has nothing to do with the air war against Iran is laughable. Ever since the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, the US has been providing Israel with precise satellite targeting and electronic intelligence (ELINT) that has given Israel a huge advantage. The US also provides a great deal of targeting and ELINT to Ukraine. Both Ukraine and Israel have been able to launch devastating attacks thanks to US intelligence. Israel’s recent success in badly damaging Iran is due to US intelligence, its own top drawer intelligence service Mossad and the ineptitude of its enemies.
Israel claims Iran is working on nuclear weapons. Iran denies this charge but admits to enriching uranium to 60% purity, but only, Tehran says, for civilians’ purposes. Our best guess is that Tehran has gone this far as a bargaining ploy after Trump, an ardent Zionist, broke off nuclear negotiations with Iran in 2015.
Let’s be frank. Iran only began limited work on nuclear weapons because it is threatened by an Israeli nuclear attack. Israel has close to 100 nuclear warheads that can be delivered by missiles, aircraft and, thanks to German help, submarines. In living memory, Iran has been invaded by Great Britain and the Soviet Union. Iran’s government was overthrown by Britain, then again by CIA in 1953. In 1979, the US convinced Iraq’s Saddam Hussein to invade Iran. In the ensuing war, Iran lost some one million soldiers.
In 2001 I discovered in Baghdad Iraq British scientists who were developing germ weapons for use on Iranian forces. The toxic precursors for these illegal weapons had come from the US. Yet all the while Washington accused Iraq of secretly making nuclear weapons. This became the US’s casus belli for attacking Iraq and killing some million Iraqis.
Now we hear the same song again. Trump, who detests Muslims unless they have oil fields, was looking for an excuse to destroy Iran’s nuclear industry. Netanyahu was eager to attack Iran, both to destroy its nuclear industry and also to fabricate a war that would keep him out of court and in power. A very limited conflict with Iran also takes world attention away from the horrifying massacre of Palestinians in Gaza, 50,000 of whom have died to date from US-supplied bombs and shells.
Israel is hoping for ‘regime change’ in Tehran. Iran is the most vocal and active supporter of the embattled Palestinians in Gaza and the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Jerusalem.
The US and its Mideast satraps have been at war with Iran since its 1979 revolution. They hope to return Iran to its pre-revolutionary status where the US gave marching orders to its former shah and used Israel’s Mossad to keep the corrupt royal regime in power.
The reason why Trump abruptly quit the summit meeting in Banff and rushed back to Washington may have been due to Israeli threats to use some of their nuclear weapons against Tehran. The Iranians must be desperate. Their nuclear industry has been damaged, their air force and air defenses destroyed, and now the G7 nations have turned against them.
Iran, as this column has long been predicting, turned out to be a paper tiger, crippled by a western boycott of its military forces. Israel holds all the military cards, thanks to billions in US support.
Now is the time when Iran could really use some nuclear weapons. North Korea has learned this lesson. Now is the time for Russia or China to step in and help Iran.
Copyright Eric S. Margolis 2025
Namaskar! Iran is the only country in history who had lost her Chief of staff, Chief of Aero space, Chief of Police, Chief of Intelligence , Chief of Air Defense in the first day of 12 Day War. Ironically Iran wanted to eliminate Israel from the world map but Israel eliminated all the chiefs together with number of scientist. Ali Khomeini smartly move to the bunker and said Iran won in the war. I wonder what happened to Russia and China? The good buddies never came for their aid at least Mr. Modi called for a peace. Now , the Iranian regime will target the Jews in Iran and may send them to the gallows since Jews are their eternal enemies as per their teaching in their holy book.
Indeed. These are the real facts of US, UK and Israeli imperialist warmongering.
What UK, US and Israel did to Iraq in 1952, overthrowing the democratic government to annex Iran’s oil, what the US torture dictator Shah of Iran did to the Iranians for 27 years until 1979, what the US did in instigating an Iraq invasion on Iran led by Saddam Hussein through the 1980’s, with biological weapons donated by the US and UK, no country in the world has more good reasons to hate US, UK and Israel and more good reasons to be afraid of them, especially with 40,000 US troops in the region that should be controlled by Iran.
Iran has good reason to believe they need a nuclear bomb to protect itself against Israel and the West.
There’s no reason, however, to believe Iran’s leaders are any more willing to use a nuclear weapon. There’s no reason to believe Iranians are any more irrational, weird, crazy, self-destructive or ideologically bent on using a nuclear bomb than the “End-of-the-World Christian evangelist nuts in the US or the weird North Koreans, or the always-in-an-uproar Pakistanis, or the newly aggressive Indians.
This Iranian nuclear program is a repetitive excuse for Israel to bomb Iran and scare the entire Middle East into pacified compliance with Israel’s dominance and endless wars. Similar to what the repetitive bombing of Syria for many years. A regular killing spree Israel calls “cutting the grass.”
Sorry, but the regime of the Mullahs strikes me as a rabid one, and so I hope that they never get The Bomb. Still, from what I’ve heard it’s doubtful they got get one soon. They’re still at the Uranium enrichment stage only, and there are, it’s said, many more tough and expensive steps ahead before one can get a deliverable nuke. The hysterias of the Past about a small terrorist band cobbling together their own nuclear bomb were always fruit loop fiction. Now as for stealing one in Thunderball fashion, that is a bit more plausible …
A great and accurate post. Iran will be destroyed, but hopefully not to the extent that Iraq and Libya was. As we’ve seen in the past no other country did anything to help when Iraq, Libya, Syria, Tunisia, etc, were destroyed by the US at Bibi’s urging. Jordan and even the destroyed Iraq allowed use of their airspace by Israel with little or no complaints. Now, it’s Iran’s turn. Russia is depleted and occupied with Ukraine, China is focused on Taiwan. Pakistan is scared and busy with India. All the other Arab countries in the region have either been subverted like Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE, etc, or destroyed. Yemen is a feeble joke that will be dealt with in time. The rest of Iran’s so called allies around the world have also been largely subverted and unable to help. Even the remnants of Hezbollah say they won’t help. An interesting side note though. Palestinians living in Israel that have cooperated/collaborated with Israel, have been shut out of the bomb shelters and are left to their fate outside. This war really started in April 2024 with Iran’s True Promise attack on Israel for the bombing of the Iranian embassy in Syria. However after the war and Iran’s ultimate defeat, all that uranium will go to Israel, and a large chunk of Iran’s oil resourses will go to help repair the damage in Israel. A stricter version of the Shaw will be installed, leaving no chance of a repeat in Iran on the order of Sisi style dictatorship that’s is in Egypt. Russia can look forward to a western controlled hostile Iran across the Caspian. All in all, a great outcome for Israel, it’s proxy the US, and the US’s western vassals. A loss to Russia and the eastern block including BRICKS. The long game is to eventually isolate China, but that’s down the line for now. Now Israel will be free to continue with the holocaust in Gaza and “finish the job ” as the phrase goes, and no one will lift a finger to help them either. The more things change, the mor they stay the same. What a happy century. 😊
” Iran only began limited work on nuclear weapons because it is threatened by an Israeli nuclear attack. ”
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All the intelligent agencies. except the Israelis state that this is false.
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The real reason the US wants to destroy Iran is to maintain the US hegemony in a uni-polar world. With Iran out of the way, Russia and China are next.
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The multipolar world is really messing with the US’s position on earth. It is rapidly bringing the US dominance to an end. This has nothing to do with nuclear enrichment. If Hussain and Gheddafi had have had nukes, other than age, they would likely be alive today… just like Kim is.
It will be really interesting to see how this turns out.
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Since the Americans and the Israelis are the aggressors, I hope they have, like the initial Israeli attack on Iran, underestimated the Iranians. It’s time to take out the American military bases in the Middle East and sink a couple of aircraft carriers. After that’s done, it’s time to mess with the oil supply. This could be followed by bringing down the American financial position… it’s a little wobbly at this point.
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As I said, it will be really interesting to see how this turns out.
Isn’t it interesting how the people who want to bring “freedom” to the Iranians want to return the corrupt , murderous tyrant the Shah back and not the elected president the CIA overthrew in 1953?
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Something you will find in Iran, Billions of barrels of oil.
Something you WON’T find in Iran. American oil companies.
Just like Venezuela.
What people also forget is Pakistan, a Sunni Muslim country, has nuclear weapons and views the Shias of Iran as heretics who need to be wiped out.
Nuclear weapons gives Iran a shield against both Israel and Muslim Pakistan.
All the talk of wiping Israel off the map is pure bluster